Inclusive hiring matters in insurance for reasons that go far beyond fairness. Ahead of our session on this at Dive In Festival 2025, we examine why inclusive hiring in the insurance sector is so pivotal, highlight how firms can adapt their strategies, and review some of the themes the event will explore.

While the Lloyd’s of London insurance market has ridden numerous challenges driven by the volatile economic climate better than most, it has still faced bumps in the road.

However, while markets will fluctuate, one thing will always be front of mind for businesses: how to hire and retain diverse, future-ready talent.  

By aligning DEI with your business strategy, you avoid the pitfall of treating it as “extra work” or investing time and money into actions that don't address your real challenges.

Read our top tips for ensuring a strategic approach.

If you wouldn’t want to make a risky decision in another area of the business, and you wouldn’t buy something without the evidence that it did what you wanted it to do, why should your hiring decisions be any different?

Trusting your gut is powerful, but don’t let it overshadow the importance of evidence in your recruitment.

When you’re looking to make an inclusive hire, and indeed the best possible hire, your secret weapon is evidence.

Learn why building your hiring process around evidence-based decisions makes life easier for your hiring managers and more equitable for your candidates.

Bias towards names and ethnicities are still responsible for negative hiring experiences in 2025.

This article uncovers how your organisation can stamp out bias in your recruitment so that diverse talent can shine, not be shut out.

From June's Virtual Diversity Forum, this was the number one takeaway when thinking about an Inclusive Hiring process. Our fantastic guests Faye Kennedy, Mark Lomas, Chartered FCIPD and Pauline Miller (Chartered, FCIPD) shared their insights on what has truly been important for embedding Inclusive Hiring as a sustainable practice in their organisations.

Diversity, equity and inclusion is important at every level of a business, and at each stage of an employee’s working journey. A truly inclusive recruitment process is the key to increasing the diversity of your team. It’s an important step to improving diversity, inclusion, and equality across your company as a whole.